RJ> Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

RJ>  BB> Hi Jasen,
RJ>  BB>     Mirabile dictu! I have msdev working on the desktop. It is
RJ>  BB> mainly C++, but will accept C code it you twist its arm.
RJ>  BB> I stripped out everything that wasn't essential, and have just
RJ>  BB> compiled "Hello World" for Windows, and run it, so it'll do.

RJ> Just out of curiosity,  how big is that resulting executable?  That
RJ> used to  be a common subject for discussion around here when talking
RJ> about different compilers.  Last one I remember was 
RJ> something absurdly toward the big side,  like 150k bytes or 
RJ> so?  But this was years ago...

Those discussions never included such things as debug vs. release builds 
or MSVC being statically vs. dynamically linked.  A release build which 
is dynamically linked can be _really_ small (well, considering that it's 
GUI).

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